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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6463068 | Router with class of service mapping A router includes a classifier that classifies packets assigned to 2n-m classes of service into 2n classes of service that are supported by the router. The classifier then sets the loss priorities of the respective packets to one of ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6250164 | Measurement of fluid pressure within a tube A method of sensing fluid pressure in which a deformable tube provides an accessible and substantially flat section. Deflection of the flat section reflects line pressure. In one embodiment, a fluid pressure sensing apparatus comprises a deformable tube f... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6233246 | Network switch with statistics read accesses A network switch including a plurality of network ports for receiving and transmitting data, where each port includes at least one statistics register for storing statistics information, such as Ethernet statistical and configuration information. The swit... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6209398 | Fluid pressure transducer apparatus and method for assembling A fluid pressure transducer assembly (10) includes an exemplary silicon or ceramic capacitive transducer (22) having a relatively flexible diaphragm portion (22e) mounted on a ceramic substrate or circuit board (18) over a bore (18a) so that the diaphragm... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6208670 | Digital carrier system for rural telephone and data applications A digital carrier telephony system for delivering voice and data telephony services to subscribers in rural locations having low population densities. A Central Office processes telephony signals having subscriber channels. A Terminal (COT), which is conn... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6205141 | Method and system for un-tagged command queuing A method and system are disclosed for processing tagged commands from a Fibre Channel host in a Fibre Channel network to one or more SCSI streaming target devices through a SCSI router. The method includes the step of determining whether the command is a ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6201805 | Apparatus and method for computer telephone integration in packet switched telephone networks The technique is described whereby an external application computer can exercise call monitoring and control over calls in a packet network telephony environment, wherein a separate application computer is utilized to communicate with the gatekeeper compu... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6192747 | Tire pressure monitoring device A device for monitoring the tire pressure on the basis of the signals provided by the individual wheel speed sensors includes an electronic evaluating circuit which determines correction factors for the wheel speeds of the individual wheels. The values of... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6185244 | Cell searching in a CDMA communications system A special coding scheme is disclosed for more effectively acquiring a long code and frame timing during a cell search in a CDMA communications system. A code set of length M Q-ary code words including symbols from a set of Q short codes is defined with ce... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185225 | Telecommunications equipment operable at two data rates A copper wire pair linking network terminating equipment in a home with a relatively localized multiplexer, e.g., in a street cabinet, carring high data rate, e.g., VDSL, signals such as ATM and ISDN, combined at the multiplexer. It is necessary for the m... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6181716 | Synchronization of voice packet generation to unsolicited grants in a DOCSIS cable modem voice over packet telephone Packet production by a digital signal processor (DSP) is synchronized with modem transmission opportunities in a cable network. The cable modem computes the average waiting time a packet spends waiting to be transmitted by the modem. The DSP re-syncs tran... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6181711 | System and method for transporting a compressed video and data bit stream over a communication channel Digitally compressed video/audio bit streams, when transmitted over digital communication channels such as digital subscriber loop (DSL) access networks, ATM networks, satellite, or wireless digital transmission facilities, can be corrupted due to lack of... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6175577 | Transmission system for transmitting a flexible multiplex signal In an MPEG-2 transmission system a plurality of programs each consisting of a plurality of elementary streams are multiplexed on a transport stream by a multiplexer (8). The transport stream is transmitted by the transmitting means (10) via a transmission... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6172747 | Airborne video tracking system A tracking system having an acquisition sight for use by a pilot to acquire and track a target. Once the target is acquired an operator using a track handle can control tracking of the target. The operator monitors the target utilizing narrow and wide fie... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6167761 | Capacitance type pressure sensor with capacitive elements actuated by a diaphragm In a capacitance type pressure sensor, a diaphragm is formed of a fragile material using an impurity-diffused monocrystal silicon and constitutes a stable pressure-responsive structure which does not undergo a plastic deformation. Between the diaphragm an... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167064 | Method and system in an intelligent communications network for a programmable call control utilizing removable configurable control mechanisms A method and system for implementing a communications network having configurable control mechanisms for the identification and transference of particular types of communications data. Detection points are established within the communications network, wh... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6161431 | Vehicle tire suitable for cooperation with a device for determining the longitudinal force acting on the tire or the tire spring travel or the footprint length or the load/pressure ratio during rotation A vehicle tire has a plurality of first marks arranged in a circular pattern on a radially outer area of the vehicle tire. A plurality of second marks is arranged in a circular pattern on a radially inner area of the sidewall. Passing of the first and sec... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6148006 | Communication system architecture, exchange having a plurality of broadband modems and method of supporting broadband operation on a one to one basis To reduce the complexity, size and power dissipation associated with the deployment of xDSL-type modems in distribution points (140-142) of a telecommunications network, a transparent concentrating optical transmission scheme is interposed between an exch... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6144660 | Cross connection element and data transmission network This invention relates to a cross connection element which comprises at least one input, output and branching means for forwarding through predetermined outputs at least some signal components of a first serial data signal received through the input. To p... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6141349 | Network system A network system in which at least one loop comprising plural loop-connected nodes and at least one loop comprising either a single node or plural loop-connected nodes are directly connected to a common transmission line, wherein a signal output from one ... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6141328 | Method and system for two-way negotiated call hold A communication system and method for a communication network is provided. The communication system and method allow a calling party and a called party to engage in a two-way negotiated call hold. The two-way call hold enables the calling party, placed on... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6137806 | Intelligent network with alternate routing of signalling messages, and method of operating such network In an intelligent network comprising a plurality of Service Signalling Points (SSP) and a Service Control Point (SCP), improved handling of overload conditions at the Service Control Point is provided by means of a Network Signalling Point interposed betw... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6122972 | Capacitive pressure sensor with moving or shape-changing dielectric A pressure sensor system includes a first conductive surface electrically isolated from a second conductive surface. A dielectric material is interposed between the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface. The dielectric material is mov... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6122973 | Electrostatic capacity-type pressure sensor with reduced variation in reference capacitance A capacitance-type pressure sensor capable of reducing a variation in reference capacitance. The capacitance-type pressure sensor includes insulating spacer (3b) arranged between a main capacitive electrode (4) and a reference capacitive electrode (5) to ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6125121 | LAN interface device A network interface device includes lines having functions for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from a station via a connection port. A line reversal circuit reverses the functions of the lines. A controller directs the line reversal circuit to ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6118768 | Apparatus and methods for use therein for an ISDN LAN modem utilizing browser-based configuration with adaptation of network parameters Apparatus, and accompanying methods for use therein, for an ISDN LAN modem that is suited for small user environments and which contains an internal ISDN router having a self-contained network hub for inter-connecting multiple network devices, such as wor... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6112586 | Effective road profile simulation method and system with tires loss-of-contact compensation A method and system for controlling an automotive vehicle spindle-coupled road simulator with a predetermined effective road profile for a road surface uses tire loss-of-contact compensation to modify the tracking parameter in a control loop to avoid inco... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111899 | Interfacing device to replace M sets of bits out of N sets of bits, control unit and logical cell An interfacing device (INT) which replaces M outgoing sets of bits out of N outgoing sets of bits (OS1, OS2, . . . , OSN) by M incoming sets of bits (IS1, IS2, . . . , ISM), M being smaller than N, includes: a. an outgoing register (OR) wherein the N outgoing ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6105434 | Acceleration-compensated pressure transducer The invention is an acceleration-compensated pressure transducer having only one signal crystal array joined by two masses and connecting elements to an inner part having a flange. The installation housing of the pressure transducer is joined to the flang... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6101870 | Tire air pressure monitoring device using the wheel or a coil wound around the stem as the transmitter antenna A device for monitoring the air pressure of a wheel. The device prevents a decrease in the transmission level of radio waves caused by impedance mismatch between an antenna, which radiates the radio waves, and a circuit, which produces signals that are to... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6097713 | CDMA multi-code transmitter employing baseband signal time offset In a CDMA multi-code transmitter in which data signals input from a plurality of data channels are spectrum-spread with mutually different spreading codes and resultant baseband signals are summed and transmitted, peak values of an eye-pattern is reduced ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6094978 | Process and devices for detection of the actuation of support of a tire on a safety bearing Process and devices for detection of the actuation of support of a tire on safety support, the process and these devices being characterized by the fact that, when support actuation occurs, they detect the appearance of a resonance mode characteristic of ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6097702 | Performance monitoring data acquisition library A method is disclosed for configuring software for acquiring PM data from telecommunication equipment in response to PM signals generated by the equipment responsive to events, including the steps of maintaining a library of product-independent, event-res... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6092425 | Differential pressure sensor having an alloy or metal isolator A differential pressure sensor (10) having a housing 12 and a metal or alloy isolator (14) for stress isolation of a sensing cell (28) that is mounted to the isolator (14). The metal or alloy isolator (14) has an opening (16) therein for providing access ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6091724 | Routing messages within a network using the data content of the message A router within a network uses the data of a message received at the router to determine on which links out of the router the message needs to be forwarded. The router does not need any destination information from the message, and thus, the message need ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091733 | Communication device using communication protocol including transport layer and communication method using communication protocol including transport layer A communication device/method inputs a first transport layer protocol data unit; creates a second transport layer protocol data unit based on the first transport layer protocol data unit, the second transport layer protocol data unit containing data as co... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089097 | Elongated pressure sensor for a pressure transmitter A transmitter in a process control system transmits a pressure over a process control loop. The transmitter includes I/O circuitry, compensation circuitry and an absolute pressure sensor. The I/O circuitry transmits information over the process control lo... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088347 | Variable chip rate code-division multiple access A method of communicating multiple signals over a common communications link by modulating first input signals with respective first codes of low cross-correlation to obtain a first set of modulated signals at a first chip rate. The input signals can be, ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6082191 | Inlet conveyor for tire testing systems An inlet conveyor for conveying tires through a tire uniformity testing system includes a tire centering mechanism and a pair of conveyor belts for delivering tires to a tire testing station. A fixed conveyor having rollers on which tires can easily slide... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6082199 | Pressure sensor cavity etched with hot POCL3 gas A transmitter in a process control system transmits a pressure over a process control loop. The transmitter includes I/O circuitry, compensation circuitry and an absolute pressure sensor. The I/O circuitry transmits information over the process control lo... | 07/04/2000 |
